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The Future's Bright
By Richard WilliamsSociety & Culture
The Future's Bright episodes
- Mindfulness: What it is and how it's changed my life
Mindfulness. It's talked about a lot, but what is it really?
Can mindfulness really change your life for the better?
Can your mind be too busy to practice it?
In this episode I'll explain how I practice mindfulness and what it's done to help me. Plus there's a short mindfulness meditation for you if you stick around until the end.
Thanks and I hope you enjoy the episode!
Podcast music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay27 min - Idea 9 - Think Globally: We need to be people who can think across borders
The challenges we face in the future are global in nature and so we need to approach them with a global mindset.
In this episode I talk about:
- The "Pale Blue Dot" we call home
- Circular (economy) thinking
- Working beyond borders
- Using all of our skills together
A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.
I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!
Podcast music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay35 min - Interview - Christine Coulson: Living sober for a brighter future
This week on the podcast I interviewed Christine Coulson. Christine is a life coach who specialises in helping people to quit alcohol or rethink their relationship with drinking.
I've been sober for almost 3 years myself and I learned loads. I hope you will too.
We talk about:
- Christine's journey to getting sober
- "Grey Area" drinking
- How life is better without alcohol
- Our views on 0% drinks
- Why not drinking really isn't boring!
Christine's "Book for a Brighter Future" is:
Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health by Prof. David Nutt
Her "Song for a Brighter Future" is:
Perfect by Pink
If you want to get in touch with Christine, her details are:
LinkedIn
Website
I hope you enjoy the episode!
Podcast music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay53 min - Idea 8 - Forgive Easily: Why it shows strength, not weakness
This one was a really, REALLY hard subject to record!
As we've looked at before, building a brighter future will mean we need to work with people who aren't like us. Maybe even they've harmed us in some way, or we them.
Building a brighter future is going to need us all to build some bridges.
In this episode I talk about:
- Why we need to forgive
- Why forgiveness is strength, not weakness
- Why it's rarely a one time thing
- When we need to forgive ourselves
A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.
I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!
Podcast music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay27 min - Idea 7 - Be Respectful: The importance of hearing both sides of the argument
To build a brighter future will require lots of us working together. Many different people, from varied backgrounds and with diverse views.
For that to be successful, we're going to have to learn to understand other people and to be respectful of our differences.
In this episode I talk about:
- Why we need to be respectful
- How to be respectful of others' views
- When it's OK not to be respectful
A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.
I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!
Podcast music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay35 min - Idea 6 - Spread Joy: Why wouldn't we want to live in a more joyful world?
Have you ever spent time around someone truly joyful? It's great isn't it? So how do more of us develop lives filled with more joy? That's the theme of Idea 6 of my Manifesto for a Brighter Future - Spread Joy.
In this episode I talk about:
- The difference between joy and happiness
- How happiness fades (quickly) over time
- Gratitude as a route to more joy
- Generosity as a route to more joy
A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.
I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!
Podcast music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay30 min - Idea 5 - Be Kind: Imagining a kinder, more generous and compassionate world
Imagine a world where everyone was kinder, more generous and more compassionate to one another. It'd be a pretty nice place to live, right? That's the theme of Idea 5 of my Manifesto for a Brighter Future - Be Kind.
In this episode I talk about:
- How everyone wants to be treated
- Why we're all like traffic
- The impact of small acts of kindness
- The right way to think about kindness and generosity
A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.
I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!
Podcast music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay28 min - Idea 4 - Think Critically: We need to question everything!
As I said in the last episode, we need to keep learning, and there's lots of information out there to help us. BUT this information isn't all the same quality and so we'll have to be very selective about what we take on board. We all need to learn to think more critically.
In this episode I talk about:
- Why all information isn't equal
- How to consider information critically
- The need to hear both sides of a story
- Should we really listen to everyone?
- How information is like food for the mind
A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.
I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!
Podcast music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay33 min - Idea 3 - Keep Learning: Why we need to be lifelong learners
In this episode I'm exploring Idea 3 from my Manifesto for a Brighter Future - Keep learning.
No one has all of the answers we need. No one. The best leaders are all lifelong learners - constantly seeking out new knowledge in their areas of interest and expertise.
In this episode I talk about:
- The reasons that we need to keep learning
- Great sources of information
- The need to relearn when the world changes
- Why you need to pass on your knowledge
A lot of this is based on my own personal experiences and experiments that I share in the episode.
I hope you enjoy it and do let me know your thoughts!
Podcast music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay30 min - Interview - Jeff Krehmer: Innovative ways to solve our big future challenges
Jeff Krehmer is an engineer and innovative thinker whose written a fascinating book about our future challenges.
In "Infinite Resources" Jeff explores some of the biggest problems that we face a global society. Crucially though he's applied his engineer's mind to propose some truly radical solutions!
In this interview, Jeff and I talk about:
- Getting the world off our addiction to burning fossil fuels
- The demographic challenges faced my many countries
- How we can use waste plastic to build new land (yes really!)
- Generating energy from the polar seas
- Using the arctic ice to solve water crises around the world
Jeff really knows what he's talking about and I learned loads in this fascinating conversation.
Jeff's "Books for a Brighter Future":
- The biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
His "Song for a Brighter Future":
- Walking in Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves
You'll find Jeff's book exclusively on Amazon here:
If you want to get in touch with Jeff, his details are:
LinkedIn
Website
I hope you enjoy the episode!
Podcast music by Nver Avetyan from Pixabay54 min
About The Future's Bright
From the publisher's feed
The podcast which explores the big future trends and what we can do about them now.
Do you think about the future a lot? Then this is definitely the podcast for you!
The future can seem a big and scary place, but I believe that when we learn about and understand future trends, we can start to see the small things each of us can do to address them.
And when we all do those things together, we’ll start to solve the challenges and build a better future for everyone.
Thanks for joining me. I'm Richard Williams and I believe the future's bright!